IBM Systems Director

Highlights

IBM® Systems Director Express Edition provides an affordable foundation for systems management. It provides the integrated tools needed to efficiently visualize and communicate the relationships of physical and virtual systems that are discovered, monitor their health, define and receive threshold alerts, and update system firmware and operating environments. Built-in automation capabilities enable IT administrators to schedule updates and configuration changes to proactively avoid problems, and reduce the administrative burden of routine maintenance.

Benefits

Reduce IT costs with faster problem identification improving the time and effort to identify, troubleshoot and fix problems
Improve system availability with proactive monitoring of key components and system resources
Simplify management with a single, intuitive user interface that consistently manages physical and virtual server resources as compared to using multiple disconnected point products

Features

Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting across physical and virtual server and storage resources*
Heterogeneous virtualization management across IBM servers
Simplified deployment, installation, and update processes
Automatic reporting of hardware problems and collection of system service information for monitored systems
Easy to learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials, and integrated help

* Power Systems only